Test 1 · ★ · White lies and kind silence

A boy in Dublin gets socks he finds boring from his uncle. Which reply is both honest and kind?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, reply · What happens: get, find, be · To what, where: socks

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 196 «White lies and kind silence» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: A boy in Dublin gets socks he finds boring from his uncle.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gets	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Dublin	case
4	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gets	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 finds	nsubj
8	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gets	conj
9	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 finds	xcomp
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 uncle	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 uncle	nmod:poss
12	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 finds	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gets	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	a boy in Dublin	socks					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sock=Stimulus
2	find	present	boy					from boy's uncle; boring property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from uncle=Source

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Sentence 2: Which reply is both honest and kind?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 reply	det
2	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 honest	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 honest	cop
4	both	both	CCONJ	_	5 honest	cc:preconj
5	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 kind	cc
7	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 honest	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 honest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which reply					honest property	tree rules
2	be		which reply not said here						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

«Thanks, it was really kind of you to think of me»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Thanks	punct
2	Thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 kind	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kind	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kind	cop
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 kind	advmod
7	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Thanks	parataxis
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 kind	nmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 think	mark
11	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 kind	acl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 me	case
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 think	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Thanks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	Thanks	kind				of you	tree rules
2	think speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive						of me	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

«Socks aren't a real present»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 present	punct
2	Socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 present	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 present	cop
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 present	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 present	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 present	amod
7	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 present	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	present	Socks	a real present					tree rules

Option 3

«I already have far too many socks, so you can keep these»

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
3	already	already	ADV	_	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 many	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 many	advmod
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 socks	amod
8	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 keep	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 keep	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 keep	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 keep	aux
13	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	parataxis
14	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 keep	obj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	I	many socks					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sock=Patient
2	keep in a quote	can	you	these					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme

Option 4

«These are the coolest socks ever made»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct
2	These	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 socks	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 socks	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 socks	det
5	coolest	cool	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 socks	amod
6	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 made	nsubj:pass
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 made	advmod
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	These	the coolest socks					tree rules
2	make in a quote	participle · passive		the coolest socks			ever		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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